Juan Couder

Spain
Statement

I am interested in photography as a process rather than a final image. As a latent being instead of a crystallised moment. In my practice, the process embraces its liquid, opaque and ephemeral materiality, positioning the author-work relationship in terms of dialogue. 

I work with a concept of expanded camera that explores the equivalence between camera, darkroom, studio, and exhibition space. In this way of seeing photography, I pay attention to the relationship that this medium has with the fleeting, and our insistence on making it fixed. The image is not an indelible stroke in iron, but an infraleve light being, which disappears with the slightest sigh. It is in its fleetingness that I find its metaphorical power; and in our endeavour to fix it, I see a gesture loaded with meaning.

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